Symptoms for Chicken Pox?My children, 13 year old, and 7 year old both have recieved the chicken pox vaccine. Apparently the chicken pox are going around the area where I live. Someone I work with just found out her daughter has chicken pox and a woman I ran into said her 2 nieces have it and they had the vaccine. My 7 year old has a fever and says he feel like he has to throw up, these were the symtons of the others. He could just be fighting something else but what are the symtons of chicken pox, what should I be looking for in the early stages (besides breaking out skin)?
Answer by lynnepeterpan
Symptoms of Chicken Pox (Varicella)
There are usually no symptoms before the rash occurs but occasionally there is fatigue and some fever in the 24 hours before the rash is noticed. The typical rash goes through a number of stages:
1. First it appears as flat red splotches
2. They become raised and may resemble small pimples
3. They develop into small blisters, called vesicles, which are very fragile
4. They may look like drops of water on a red base
5. As the vesicles break, the sores become pustular and form a crust - the crust is made of dried serum, and not true pus. Itching is severe in the pustular stage.
The vesicles tend to appear in crops within two to six days. (This is an important difference from small pox, where the lesions can look similar to chicken pox, but they are all in the same stage.) All stages may be present in the same area. They often appear on the scalp and in the mouth, and then spread to the rest of the body, but they may begin anywhere. They are most numerous over shoulders, chest and back. There may be only a few sores, or there may be hundreds. In patients with pre-existing eczema, the lesions may first appear in the eczema patches.
The doctor should be called if the rash involves an eye, if fever is higher than 103, if there is much vomiting, or if there are signs of bacterial infection (such as a green or yellow discharge from the blisters, or any blisters with red streaks radiating outwards). Go to the emergency room if there is difficulty breathing, indicating a possible pneumonia, or if the person is confused, disoriented, ataxic (unsteady), has seizures, or shows any other neurologic signs. When seeking medical attention, remember to let health care providers know that the child might have chicken pox so that proper isolation policies can be instituted to prevent additional exposures.
Answer by dymond
Fever and nausea,listlessness,itching before the actual breakout is common.Sore throat can also be a symptom,there is usually some thirst before hand also.
Answer by Jason Homan
Hi dazed and confused,
If your children, 13 year old, and 7 year old both have received the chicken pox vaccine - you may not fear. The vaccine is exceedingly safe: approximately 5% of children who receive the vaccine develop a fever or rash, but there have been no deaths, as of May 2006.
Chicken pox is the common name for Varicella simplex, classically one of the childhood infectious diseases caught and survived by most children.
Chicken pox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It starts with moderate fever and then characteristic spots appearing in two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the hands and becoming itchy raw pox (pocks), small open sores which heal mostly without scarring. Please look article: http://www.askedweb.com/askedweb/Chicken_Pox_-_What_You_Should_Know_About_This_Infectious_Disease/
Second infections with chicken pox occur in immunocompetent individuals, but are uncommon and rarely severe.
Jason Homan
Get the facts on the chickenpox vaccine, treatment, causes (varicella zoster virus, VZV), symptoms and signs (itchy, red rash).
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